Vayeishev

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 Vayeishev

Vayeishev Yaakov? Good luck with that,

There’s no Vayeishev for him in Canaan,

He may stay in one place but does not get to live,

Life serene in the land he was born.

Yosef dreams dreams, and tells them to all,

He’d have been better off to conceal them,

He eventually learns, when it comes to such things,

There’s a right time and place to reveal them.

And of all people Reuven protects Yosef’s life,

From the jealous hands of his brothers,

Reuven, the eldest, who has been twice involved,

In the discord between both their mothers.

And who buys and sells Yosef is not at all clear,

Whether Midiani or Yishmaeli,

But Potiphar gets a very good deal,

On a slightly used Yisraeli.

Now Yehudah takes up with an entrepreneur,

When his brothers say he went too far,

Business is good, he does well for himself,

’Til he does the wrong thing by Tamar.

Tamar then has twins, just like Rivka before,

And threaded with red is the older,

And although, in fact, he was actually born last,

Unlike Yaakov, Peretz was the bolder.